Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Artistic License – History Scary Black Man Plucky Comic Relief Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Easily Forgiven Red Eyes, Take Warning Take a Third Option Death by Irony You Killed My Father Chekhov's Gun It Can Think Ungrateful Bastard Funny Foreigner One Steve Limit Crucified Hero Shot Lock and Load Montage Irony Taking You with Me Motor Mouth Pre-Mortem One-Liner Undying Loyalty Artistic License – Physics Gone Horribly Right The Atoner Playing Gertrude Antagonist Title Coming-of-Age Story Boom, Headshot! What You Are in the Dark War Is Hell Belligerent Sexual Tension Insane Troll Logic Knight Templar The Oner The Smart Guy Alliterative Name Bad "Bad Acting" Silence Is Golden Disney Death Genre Savvy Drill Sergeant Nasty Framing Device Friend to All Children Token Minority Drugs Are Bad Ship Tease Foil Morality Pet Dying Moment of Awesome Mundane Made Awesome Shoot the Shaggy Dog What Happened to the Mouse? No Antagonist Disappeared Dad Disguised in Drag Early-Bird Cameo Arranged Marriage Idiot Ball Vitriolic Best Buds Spanner in the Works Bald of Evil Badass in a Nice Suit Composite Character Daylight Horror Whole Plot Reference Sir Swears-a-Lot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Domestic Abuse Grey and Gray Morality Age Lift Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Badass Normal Those Wacky Nazis Big-Bad Ensemble True Companions Superhero Took a Level in Badass "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dressing as the Enemy Tagline The Lancer Serial Killer Kill It with Fire Determinator Police Brutality Faux Affably Evil Death by Adaptation Reckless Gun Usage The Big Guy Get Out! No Ending Due to the Dead Bowdlerise Mugging the Monster Villain Ball Evil vs. Evil Logo Joke Rule of Three Humans Are Bastards Betty and Veronica Affably Evil Soundtrack Dissonance Dark and Troubled Past Distracted by the Sexy Covers Always Lie Really Gets Around Animal Title Index Hypocrite The Ace Make It Look Like an Accident The Voiceless For the Evulz Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fate Worse than Death Fanservice Mercy Kill As the Good Book Says... The Mole Ragtag Bunch of Misfits And the Adventure Continues Thriller Papa Wolf Red Herring Fantastic Racism Parental Substitute Spiteful Spit Annoying Younger Sibling Costume Porn Hell Is That Noise Henpecked Husband Final Girl Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience 20 Minutes into the Future Police are Useless Jitter Cam The Mafia Pretty Little Headshots Dark Reprise Military and Warfare Films Dirty Cop Nice Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Light Is Not Good Romantic Comedy Deus ex Machina Pimped-Out Dress Expository Hairstyle Change Card-Carrying Villain Genre Throwback Impaled with Extreme Prejudice What the Hell, Hero? Maybe Ever After Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Fourth Date Marriage Sinister Minister Spell My Name with an "S" Psychopathic Manchild Kubrick Stare Genre Shift Woman in White Hate Sink Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Wrong Genre Savvy Bavarian Fire Drill La Résistance Facial Horror Homage Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Dog Bites Back Chekhov's Gunman Villain Protagonist Russian Films Air-Vent Passageway Red Shirt Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Meet Cute Camp Gay Blackmail Unusually Uninteresting Sight Pyrrhic Victory The Casanova Not So Different Historical Villain Upgrade Agony of the Feet Amusing Injuries Artistic License – Gun Safety Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Ambiguous Ending Drives Like Crazy Artistic License – Geography Obstructive Bureaucrat Creepy Child Bait-and-Switch Our Zombies Are Different Villain Opening Scene Guns Akimbo One-Word Title "Awesome McCool" Name Very Loosely Based on a True Story Dogged Nice Guy Comically Missing the Point The '80s Diabolus ex Machina Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Sacrificial Lion Unresolved Sexual Tension Department of Redundancy Department Neck Snap Cool Old Lady Mythology Gag Adapted Out After the End Bottomless Magazines Developing Doomed Characters Lighter and Softer Stalker with a Crush Married to the Job Adaptational Heroism Psycho for Hire Brick Joke Cool Guns Fun with Acronyms Serious Business Humiliation Conga Five-Man Band Fantasy Films Bring My Brown Pants Cool Shades Scenery Gorn Wham Shot Slashed Throat Adaptation Expansion Arc Words Missing Mom Ghost Fiction Not So Above It All Say My Name And Starring She Cleans Up Nicely Obviously Evil Becoming the Mask Not What It Looks Like Your Cheating Heart Overly Long Gag Word of God Establishing Character Moment Leave the Camera Running Only Known by Their Nickname Action Genre Hidden Depths Ass Shove Pay Evil unto Evil Madness Mantra It Will Never Catch On Slasher Smile One-Man Army Market-Based Title Frame-Up Chekhov's Skill Face Death with Dignity Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Evil Is Petty Deliberate Values Dissonance Darkest Hour Bond One-Liner Canon Foreigner Fan Disservice Intrepid Reporter Non-Indicative Name Stepford Smiler Catapult Nightmare Curb-Stomp Battle My Greatest Failure Training Montage Black Best Friend Fiery Redhead Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Stock Footage Adaptational Badass No-Sell Tranquil Fury Adorkable Reality Ensues Names to Run Away from Really Fast Dramedy Pretty in Mink Abusive Parents Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Interrupted Suicide Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Tempting Fate Poor Communication Kills All Just a Dream Contrived Coincidence Smug Snake Half the Man He Used to Be You Have Failed Me Kick the Son of a Bitch Rule of Cool Vomit Discretion Shot Older Than They Look The Load Visual Pun Cassandra Truth folderlabel Suspiciously Similar Substitute Black Dude Dies First Offscreen Teleportation Sports Stories Time Skip Attempted Rape Extreme Doormat Dissonant Serenity Meaningful Echo Same Language Dub Enemy Mine Amoral Attorney Stealth Pun "The Reason You Suck" Speech Accidental Murder Love Triangle Mr. Exposition I Have Your Wife British Films Real Life Writes the Plot O.O.C. Is Serious Business Expy Animated Credits Opening The Chick Bury Your Gays Getting Crap Past the Radar The Lost Lenore Random Events Plot Public Domain Feature Films Imagine Spot Suspiciously Specific Denial Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Major Injury Underreaction Properly Paranoid Bland-Name Product Ominous Latin Chanting Horror Comedy Fanservice Extra Evil Is Hammy Earn Your Happy Ending Mad Scientist From Nobody to Nightmare Asshole Victim Batman Gambit Eureka Moment Music Stories Does Not Like Shoes Ms. Fanservice Pragmatic Villainy Famous Last Words Action Girl Black Comedy Rape Bound and Gagged Oh, Crap! Calling the Old Man Out Scare Chord Handicapped Badass Overprotective Dad Jerk Jock He Knows Too Much Laughing Mad All There in the Manual Bare Your Midriff Take That! Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Only a Flesh Wound The Ditz Retired Badass Adult Fear Anti-Hero Sadistic Choice Let's Get Dangerous! Blatant Lies Sanity Slippage Heroic Sacrifice Despair Event Horizon Japanese Films Rape as Drama Lampshade Hanging Jerkass Badass Boast Catch-Phrase Gold Digger As You Know Vomit Indiscretion Shot Cool Car Anachronism Stew Film Series Black and Gray Morality Hypocritical Humor Reality Is Unrealistic May–December Romance Defiant to the End Dutch Angle As Long as It Sounds Foreign Soft Glass Neck Lift Mr. Fanservice Redshirt Army Corrupt Corporate Executive Jerkass Has a Point Fingore The '90s Epic Movie Camera Abuse Children Are Innocent Science Fiction Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Accidental Misnaming Mind Screw Death of a Child Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Villainous Breakdown Arch-Enemy The Musical Spiritual Successor Drowning My Sorrows Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Villain with Good Publicity Recycled IN SPACE! Informed Ability Decoy Protagonist Film Noir Noodle Incident I'm a Humanitarian Good Is Not Nice Award-Bait Song Captain Obvious Only One Name Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Rich Bitch Victoria's Secret Compartment Crapsack World Unreliable Narrator Bilingual Bonus Didn't Think This Through Freeze-Frame Bonus Australian Movies Captain Ersatz Here We Go Again! Rasputinian Death I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Moment Killer Bloody Hilarious Rated M for Manly Badass Longcoat Retcon The End... Or Is It? Crazy-Prepared In Medias Res Crazy Jealous Guy Call-Forward Those Two Guys Together in Death Dramatic Gun Cock Abhorrent Admirer Stealth Hi/Bye Eyepatch of Power Hong Kong Films Shout-Out Brother–Sister Incest Advertised Extra Disproportionate Retribution Dark Is Not Evil N-Word Privileges Love at First Sight Meaningful Name A Father to His Men Chewing the Scenery Broken Bird Guile Hero Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Shell-Shocked Veteran Vacation Films Real Life Dirty Old Man Conspicuous CG Product Placement Bunny-Ears Lawyer Gender Flip MacGuffin Bolivian Army Ending Off with His Head! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Aside Glance Ripped from the Headlines Historical Hero Upgrade Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cat Scare Malevolent Masked Men Evil Sounds Deep Mistaken for Gay Even Evil Has Standards The Smurfette Principle Happily Married The Quiet One Race Against the Clock Foregone Conclusion Would Hit a Girl Not Even Bothering with the Accent Armor-Piercing Question Berserk Button Beware the Nice Ones Intergenerational Friendship Precision F-Strike Riddle for the Ages Apocalypse How Never My Fault Those Two Bad Guys Ambiguously Gay Adaptation Name Change Dropped a Bridge on Him Deliberately Monochrome Television Movie Index In the Back The Dreaded Plot Hole Insult Backfire Running Gag Works Set in World War II Celebrity Paradox Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Loads and Loads of Characters The Stoner Fatal Family Photo Corpsing Dual Wielding Documentary Made of Iron Psychological Thriller Not So Stoic Wounded Gazelle Gambit Truth in Television Deadpan Snarker All for Nothing Eagleland Big "NO!" Driven to Suicide Self-Deprecation Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Gratuitous English Laser-Guided Karma Mighty Whitey She's Got Legs Combat Pragmatist Silent Movie Manic Pixie Dream Girl Kill 'em All Insistent Terminology Ascended Extra Evil Plan Killed Mid-Sentence Bi the Way Gory Discretion Shot Mexican Standoff NO INDOOR VOICE Dwindling Party Eye Scream Ambiguous Disorder Christmas Movies Index Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Manly Tears The Remake Red Right Hand Kids Are Cruel Stuff Blowing Up Totally Radical Put on a Bus Not Using the "Z" Word Important Haircut Big Damn Heroes The Starscream Well-Intentioned Extremist Paper-Thin Disguise Broken Pedestal Fire-Forged Friends No OSHA Compliance No Celebrities Were Harmed Star-Crossed Lovers Tap on the Head Funny Background Event The Faceless Shower Scene Show Within a Show Only Sane Man Rewatch Bonus Cowboy Cop The Alleged Car Big Applesauce Honor Before Reason Male Gaze The Film of the Book Early Installment Weirdness Flipping the Bird Historical In-Joke Dark Action Girl Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bloodier and Gorier Back from the Dead Affectionate Parody Break the Cutie An Arm and a Leg Gilligan Cut Retirony Revenge Action Prologue Stylistic Suck Chiaroscuro Fish out of Water Exact Words Deal with the Devil Our Vampires Are Different Evil Counterpart Sexy Discretion Shot Demonic Possession Alpha Bitch No Name Given Fat Bastard My Beloved Smother Line-of-Sight Name Slap-Slap-Kiss Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Character Development Fainting Rule of Funny The Reveal Left the Background Music On Hero of Another Story Badass Bookworm Martial Arts Movie All There in the Script Animal Motifs The Stoic Toplessness from the Back Exactly What It Says on the Tin Greater-Scope Villain The Ghost The Cameo A.I. Is a Crapshoot Call-Back Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sealed Evil in a Can Chase Scene Storming the Castle A Date with Rosie Palms The Hero Big Brother Instinct Knife Nut Mama Bear Double Entendre Face–Heel Turn Car Fu Damsel in Distress Continuity Nod Butt-Monkey Depraved Bisexual As Himself Leitmotif Death by Sex The Chessmaster Posthumous Character Man on Fire Mood Whiplash In Name Only Beta Couple Punny Name Never Found the Body Sole Survivor Only in It for the Money The X of Y Break the Haughty Straight Gay Body Horror Book-Ends Better to Die than Be Killed I Need a Freaking Drink Credits Gag Parental Incest Canadian Movies Femme Fatale An Axe to Grind The Sociopath Big Eater Creator Cameo Everyone Has Standards Instant Death Bullet Politically Incorrect Villain Loophole Abuse Cloudcuckoolander Fatal Flaw Anti-Villain Unusual Euphemism Hollywood Law French Films Darker and Edgier Title Drop Double-Meaning Title Almost Kiss Casting Gag Punch-Clock Villain Aluminum Christmas Trees Mooks The Un-Reveal From Bad to Worse Brainless Beauty Spared by the Adaptation The '50s Yandere Never Trust a Trailer Peek-a-Boo Corpse Artistic License – Biology Needs Wiki Magic Love Adaptational Attractiveness The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Pet the Dog Bloodless Carnage Male Frontal Nudity '80s Hair Jerk with a Heart of Gold Big Fancy House Blood Knight Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Foreshadowing Central Theme Taking the Bullet BFG Disney Villain Death Determinator aka: The Determinator Video Credits Reasonable Authority Figure Offscreen Moment of Awesome An Aesop Beauty Is Never Tarnished Adaptation Dye-Job He Who Fights Monsters Kick the Dog Zombie Stories The Vamp Vampire Fiction Does This Remind You of Anything? Grievous Bottley Harm Setting Update Implacable Man The Bad Guy Wins Parental Abandonment Ax-Crazy Protagonist Title Throwing Your Sword Always Works Novelization Adaptational Villainy Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Your Head A-Splode Up to Eleven Red Oni, Blue Oni Rousing Speech Babies Ever After Horror Films Manchild World of Ham It's All About Me Badass Grandpa The Great Depression Auto Erotica Shirtless Scene Freudian Excuse Have a Gay Old Time Improvised Weapon Wretched Hive Hair-Trigger Temper The Brute Bittersweet Ending Epic Fail Daddy's Girl Woman Scorned Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Once More, with Clarity! Re-Cut Heel–Face Turn Big Bad Bullying a Dragon Breaking the Fourth Wall Bond Villain Stupidity Actually Pretty Funny Men Are the Expendable Gender Creative Closing Credits Fake Shemp Room Full of Crazy Small Name, Big Ego Artistic License – Law Film Noir Index Match Cut Jump Scare Naïve Newcomer Skewed Priorities Destination Defenestration Race Lift Hollywood Darkness Narrator Gorn For Want of a Nail Eldritch Abomination Refuge in Audacity Black Comedy Monumental Damage You Have Outlived Your Usefulness My God, What Have I Done? I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Demoted to Extra Took a Level in Jerkass The Alcoholic Pragmatic Adaptation Trailers Always Spoil Beard of Evil Not Quite Dead And I Must Scream Redemption Equals Death Sci-Fi Horror Danny Peary Cult Movies List Manipulative Bastard The Bully Bar Brawl Biopic Action Survivor timeperiod How We Got Here Closed Circle Anyone Can Die Bad Boss Deconstruction Empathic Environment Gainax Ending Slasher Movie Hooker with a Heart of Gold Off-into-the-Distance Ending Made of Explodium Flashback Extremely Short Timespan Parental Neglect Curse Cut Short Actor Allusion Meaningful Background Event Karma Houdini Italian Films Last-Name Basis Cluster F-Bomb Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Defrosting Ice Queen The Hero Dies Improbable Weapon User German Films Heroes Want Redheads Cool Old Guy Dramatic Irony Evil Brit Based on a True Story Translation Convention Villain Song The Dragon There Is No Kill Like Overkill Author Appeal Naked People Are Funny Big Bad Duumvirate Heroic BSoD Reality Has No Subtitles This Is Gonna Suck Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The '60s Obfuscating Stupidity Brutal Honesty No-Holds-Barred Beatdown It's Personal All Men Are Perverts Anguished Declaration of Love Hero Antagonist Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Cavalry Death Glare Be Careful What You Wish For Ironic Echo Shut Up, Hannibal! B-Movie I Did What I Had to Do Dies Wide Open Evil Laugh Shown Their Work Eiffel Tower Effect Dirty Coward Anachronic Order Sequel Escalation Every Car Is a Pinto Four-Temperament Ensemble Scenery Porn The Stinger No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Alas, Poor Villain Large Ham The '70s Authority Equals Asskicking Adults Are Useless Groin Attack Awesome, but Impractical Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue More Dakka Romantic False Lead Blood from the Mouth Twist Ending Historical-Domain Character "Shaggy Dog" Story Rule of Symbolism Heel Realization Dull Surprise Hoist by His Own Petard Improbable Aiming Skills The Power of Love Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Cain and Abel Death Seeker A Minor Kidroduction Heterosexual Life-Partners You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Author Avatar Index of Film Westerns The Place Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Downer Ending Suddenly SHOUTING! Sassy Black Woman Cruel and Unusual Death Hope Spot Mystery and Detective Films Outrun the Fireball Country Matters Super Strength Worthy Opponent Artistic License – Military Nice Hat Sequel Hook Smoking Is Cool Shipper on Deck Too Dumb to Live Adaptation Distillation Dumb Blonde Faking the Dead Did Not Get the Girl Failed a Spot Check Karmic Death Cold-Blooded Torture A God Am I Green-Eyed Monster Wicked Cultured Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Broken Aesop Wham Line Would Hurt a Child Nothing Is Scarier Cat Fight Immune to Bullets Roaring Rampage of Revenge Evil-Detecting Dog